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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 436311" data-attributes="member: 6533">Uneducated SocietiesI'm a little uncomfortable with assuming the superiority of modern educational structures as the variable for distributing technology.  I would argue that our capital systems, cultural attitudes, and ability to design for ease of use are probably more important.  Afterall, it takes a lot less knowledge for me to properly use nearly all the items of high technology in my house than for me to succesfully run a medieval peasant farm.Certainly our mathematics are easier to use and capable of more flexible application and you could say the distinction is knowledge through practice vs. knowledge through theory, but...My real point is that people in the middle ages were very aggressive entrepeneurs and creative engineers and artisans.  Late medieval europe, prior to the plague and reformation, was filled with incredibly elaborate mills and foundrys.  Cistercian Abbeys have been found with blast furnaces that weren't adopted by secular British institutions till centuries after the Henry shut down the Monastaries.While this does seem to promote the idea that the restiveness of medieval society threatened technological growth, I would argue that it serves to prove that an individual high level mage would easily grasp the value of Nexus towers as a production tool and quickly build himself a small empire with them.  Likely making himself a free city around which his foundries could work and produce for his own forces and sell inferior products to mercenary companies or national armies.So yeah, I'd say it would be very likely that if someone could figure out how to build a nexus tower he would likely use it to its full potential.The real question is how would enough learn of it to make it spread or why the local churches or strongmen wouldn't march in and take out such a morally questionable device.  Why would anyone want to live near one in the first place?Probably not a device that would catch on the middle ages without being able to show a potential for unrivalled profit.  Would run like wildfire through an imperial Rome or China, however.</blockquote>

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